See! another year is gone!

The words

1. 1

   Stanza 1. See! another year is gone!Quickly have the seasons past!This we enter now uponMay to many prove our last.Mercy hitherto has spared,But have mercies been improved?Let us ask, am I preparedShould I be this year removed?

2. 2

   Stanza 2. Some we now no longer see,Who their mortal race have run;Seemed as fair for life as we,When the former year begunSome, but who God only knows,Who are here assembled now;Ere the present year shall close,To the stroke of death must bow.

3. 3

   Stanza 3. Life a field of battle is,Thousands fall within our view;And the next death–bolt that flies,May be sent to me or you:While we preach, and while we hear,Help us, LORD, each one, to think,Vast eternity is near,I am standing on the brink.

4. 4

   Stanza 4. If from guilt and sin set free,By the knowledge of thy grace;Welcome, then, the call will beTo depart and see thy face:To thy saints, while here below,With new years, new mercies come;But the happiest year they knowIs their last, which leads them home.

Olney Hymns (1779), Book 2, Hymn 3. John Newton. Public domain. CCEL transcription with modernized spelling. www.praylock.com/olney-hymns/2-3